Loving Dr. JohnsonUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 Feb 2011 - 304 halaman The autopsy of Samuel Johnson (1709-84) initiated two centuries of Johnsonian anatomy-both in medical speculation about his famously unruly body and in literary devotion to his anecdotal remains. Even today, Johnson is an enduring symbol of individuality, authority, masculinity, and Englishness, ultimately lending a style and a name—the Age of Johnson—to the eighteenth-century English literary canon. Loving Dr. Johnson uses the enormous popularity of Johnson to understand a singular case of author love and to reflect upon what the love of authors has to do with the love of literature. Helen Deutsch's work is driven by several impulses, among them her affection for both Johnson's work and Boswell's biography of him, and her own distance from the largely male tradition of Johnsonian criticism—a tradition to which she remains indebted and to which Loving Dr. Johnson is ultimately an homage. Limning sharply Johnson's capacious oeuvre, Deutsch's study is also the first of its kind to examine the practices and rituals of Johnsonian societies around the world, wherein Johnson's literary work is now dwarfed by the figure of the writer himself. An absorbing look at one iconic author and his afterlives, Loving Dr. Johnson will be of enormous value to students of English literature and literary scholars keenly interested in canon formation. |
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... writers are inscribed on the walls of Westminster Abbey ; but scarcely anyone lies there whose heart was more acutely responsive during life to the deepest and tenderest emotions . In visiting that strange gathering of departed heroes ...
... writers are inscribed on the walls of Westminster Abbey ; but scarcely anyone lies there whose heart was more acutely responsive during life to the deepest and tenderest emotions . In visiting that strange gathering of departed heroes ...
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... writer and talker of perfect clarity, might speak an unintelligible private language. Rather than reassure, his words, unspeakable words that Mr. Thrale cannot stand to hear, might alienate, cause shock, fear, and pain. The fact that ...
... writer and talker of perfect clarity, might speak an unintelligible private language. Rather than reassure, his words, unspeakable words that Mr. Thrale cannot stand to hear, might alienate, cause shock, fear, and pain. The fact that ...
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... writing exercise in which she imagines the anthropologist Malinowski's body. Relocating Malinowski's “authority to speak, his basis for generalization,” in the particularized anecdotal, personal realm of the diary he kept during his ...
... writing exercise in which she imagines the anthropologist Malinowski's body. Relocating Malinowski's “authority to speak, his basis for generalization,” in the particularized anecdotal, personal realm of the diary he kept during his ...
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... writing on, but never think. ( – ) : This abundantly confirms the account Mr. Boswell has given of Dr. Johnson's opinion how books should be made; though it seems rather odd that he never made them so himself. It certainly ...
... writing on, but never think. ( – ) : This abundantly confirms the account Mr. Boswell has given of Dr. Johnson's opinion how books should be made; though it seems rather odd that he never made them so himself. It certainly ...
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... writer most (though far from solely) responsible for the construction of the Johnsonian monument that has endured to this day in Johnson societies around the world and (until recently) in literature classrooms around the country ...
... writer most (though far from solely) responsible for the construction of the Johnsonian monument that has endured to this day in Johnson societies around the world and (until recently) in literature classrooms around the country ...
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1 Johnsonian Romance | 43 |
The Case of Dr Johnson | 71 |
Uncritical Reading and Johnsonian Communion | 105 |
4 The Ephesian Matron and Johnsons Corpse | 155 |
Anecdotal Errancy Three Authors | 195 |
Notes | 241 |
Index | 309 |
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